Entertainment & Arts
The National Library in Florence may have lost its relics of “Divine Comedy” author Dante Alighieri, but the library of the Italian Senate has preserved ashes from the poet’s sarcophagus in a small, round, golden box, officials said Wednesday.
May 8, 1987
World & Nation
Workers reorganizing the bookshelves at a library here found a sack of dust from the tomb of Dante on Monday, 70 years after librarians mislaid it.
July 20, 1999
Dante Alighieri, traditionally portrayed as a stern figure with a large hooked nose, is now showing a softer side, thanks to a reconstruction of his face by Italian scientists.
Jan. 13, 2007
Archives
A group has threatened to blow up a monument to Dante Alighieri because the medieval poet’s famed “Divine Comedy” places the Prophet Mohammed in hell, officials said Sunday.
March 6, 1989
Travel & Experiences
Whatever you do on this Easter Sunday, I can guarantee you won’t do what Alfred Hirschi had hoped.
April 4, 1999
Cannibal Count Ugolino, imprisoned in Pisa’s Clock Tower in the 13th century, was not slowly starved and driven to eat the flesh of his own dead sons, as Dante Alighieri wrote in his famous “Inferno,” but was killed by a blow to the head after five months in prison, according to an Italian archeologist.
Jan. 14, 2002
Banished from his beloved Florence in 1302, Dante Alighieri knew what it was like to be flung into the outer circles of darkness.
Dec. 14, 1998
Books
Experiencing the Afterlife Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture Manuele Gragnolati University of Notre Dame Press: 296 pp., $25 paper
Dec. 25, 2005
Dante in Love: The World’s Greatest Poem and How It Made History; Harriet Rubin; Simon & Schuster: 276 pp., $23.95
May 24, 2004
Why Dante’s Astonishing Epic, Dazzling in Its Clarity and Artistic Coherence, Continues to Cast an Enduring Spell : INFERNO By Dante Alighieri. Translated from the Italian by Robert and Jean Hollander. Introduction and Notes by Robert Hollander. Doubleday: 704 pp., $35
April 29, 2001